I’m the Pay Thief at the Winery

Dusk is gradually falling in Singapore. Kaito Kuroba and Shinichi Kudo sat on a bench in the park, watching the skyline being dyed golden red by the setting sun. The Sands Hotel standing in Marina Bay looked like a huge luxury cruise ship, shining golden light.

Kuroba Kaito has already told Kudo Shinichi about the case of Chen Xuelin and Zhang Ruiqiu, and asked him to find out the truth-in fact, Kudo Shinichi has already started to investigate the case. And there has been some progress.

Kuroba Kaito should have left after finishing his business, but he still sat quietly next to Kudo Shinichi, with an expression that I know you have something to ask me so hurry up.

"Where is Nan Ling?" Kudo Shinichi lived up to his guess, "Since he proposed to come to me, why didn't he come?"

"'It's not 'we' to look for, but 'you' to look for it.'" Kaito Kuroba changed his appearance into a thirty-year-old uncle at this time, and spread his hands casually, "—Nanling is like this with me Said. I guess he hasn't figured out how to face you yet."

He was merciless in exposing Nanling's background.

"He didn't think about how to face me?" Kudo Shinichi looked strange, "Actually, he was afraid of being caught by me."

Kaito Kuroba whistled, "You're a little too confident, detective. Also, your way of thinking doesn't have to be so rational. Aren't you and Nan Ling friends?"

"Yes." Kudo Shinichi replied simply, "But it has nothing to do with my arresting him."

"Just like us?"

"Just like us." Kudo Shin took a look at him, thinking that he was also unlucky-this is the number of times someone used Kidd's name to make trouble, "I will let you go this time."

Kaito Kuroba relaxed and leaned back on the chair, "Why can't I let him go if he can let me go? What's the difference between Nanling and me?"

Kudo Shinichi was silent for a while.

"It's different." He said softly.

Kidd is just stealing things, and he will even return the things after stealing. There is no harm other than a waste of police force, and it can even stimulate tourism and the economy—do you know how many girls (and boys?) have a sincere heart for the thief, Wherever Kidd's notice was sent, they followed, and all kinds of peripherals emerged in an endless stream.

But Nanling is different.

During this year, he assisted in the investigation of the organization's case as an important witness. Nanling killed Karasuma Renye and left, but the organization problem was far more than that simple. The centipede is dead but not stiff, and even without the Renye Karasuma organization, the power is still huge, not to mention the judicial process after arresting the person, the intelligence agencies and police of various countries are very busy.

Kudo Shinichi mainly stayed in Japan to assist Fuguya Rei and Morofu Jingguang, and thus had access to all the information about Nanling when he was Charter. When sending intelligence emails, information related to Charter was not excluded.

Even if he could totally do it.

That's why Jiang Guling and the others thought that Nan Ling really wanted to die. Otherwise, why did he leave so many handles?

In the voluminous documents and records, Kudo Shinichi learned another side of Nanling.

Even if the countless frauds and blackmails were intentionally injured, the number of people who died in Nanling's hands alone was close to four figures, covering all parts of the world—although the group of researchers organized and the security guards in Karasuma Renye base A lot of numbers have been contributed, but there are only a lot more innocent people. And that's all they can find.

Kudo Shinichi clearly knows that these are all because of the organization. Judging from the records, Nan Ling himself has no hobbies for killing people for fun. Almost all the criminal records that can be found are related to the organization.

—By the way, the number of people saved by Seven is almost catching up with the number of people he killed. Jiang Gu Ling, who was in charge of checking this matter, had no time to close his eyes for a few days.

If Nan Ling didn't grow up in an organization...

Kudo Shinichi didn't think about it any further. There are not many brainwashed people in the organization, and he has seen many of them during this time. Nan Ling may not have a choice, but what he has done cannot be erased no matter what.

It was because they were friends that he had to catch Nanling.

"What are you thinking?" Kaito Kuroba elbowed him, "I didn't hear what I asked you."

Kudo Shinichi woke up from his contemplation, "What did you ask?"

"If one day I kill someone too, what will you do?" Kaito Kuroba asked in a relaxed tone, "Could it be that you don't even have to be friends, detective."

Kudo Shinichi was taken aback for a moment, then smiled quickly, "How could that be. I will definitely catch you—as a friend."

"Oh, it sounds really reliable." Kuroba Kaito shook artificially, "It's scary. It seems that I have to be more cautious. Before I finish what I have to do, I can't be caught by a famous detective. live."

things to do. Kudo Shinichi repeated in his heart. Yes, he has always been curious about Kidd's motivation for becoming a strange thief, especially when he found that Kidd seemed to be about the same age as himself, he couldn't figure it out even more.

Obviously he is still very young, why did he choose this path.

There are so many reasons for crimes in this world, Kudo Shinichi can rationally understand—for revenge, for justice, for desire, all kinds of weird reasons—but he can never empathize. He would never choose to commit a crime, for whatever reason.

"...Why?" he asked, "Why do you want to be a Phantom Thief?"

Kuroba Kaito was not at all surprised that he would ask such a question, but he did not answer directly, but said: "It is the magician who makes people think that there is something in the clenched fist, and says that there is something in the fist before opening the fist." Something's a detective—it's your job to find the truth, not mine."

"Is it the same as Nan Ling?"

Kuroba Kaito fell silent. He looked towards the direction of the setting sun, and the warm afterglow reflected on the distant sea, like a soft, rippling silk. Soon, night will fall on the world, and artificial light will replace the sun, which is more colorful, more beautiful and softer than daylight.

But that's a substitute after all.

"That's the problem." Kaito Kuroba said, "I don't know why Nanling chose this path. Of course, I have no position to understand these things, but there is one thing I want to know anyway."

"What's up?"

Kuroba Kaito hesitated. It was the first time for Kudo Shinichi to see such obvious emotions on his face. In the next second, Kaito Kuroba regained his composure.

He recalled what he saw when he bandaged Nanling—a tattoo, several slender numbers, engraved on Nanling's left arm like a seal. He curiously asked Nan Ling why he tattooed these numbers on his body, and whether they had any meaning. Nan Ling - rarely - skipped this topic with an extremely perfunctory attitude.

It was definitely not tattooed casually, but Nan Ling obviously didn't want to mention it.

He hesitated again before saying, "You can choose not to tell me. If you think it's better—I just want to know... what does the number 077 represent?"

Kudo Shinichi was stunned.

The data of human experiments slipped through his mind. In fact, Zhu Fu Jingguang did not support his access to this information at the beginning. He tried his best to avoid Kudo Shinichi from seeing things that were too extreme, such as brainwashing programs, or those more inhumane things. Human experimentation is of course part of it.

But he insisted on watching. This is not only for Nanling, but also for Haibara... for Miyano Shiho.

Miyano Shiho's resume is very clear. When Kudo Shinichi read those materials, he often felt a deep sense of powerlessness. Miyano Shiho's psychological problems are very serious, and Kudo Shinichi knows about it; Nanling's past as an experimental subject was extremely painful, and he also knows about it. But after reading those materials, he had a sense of reality.

Half of him rationally knew that Miyano Shiho was also a victim of the organization. She didn't enjoy the process of human experimentation and was also tortured by it; the other half of him woke up from the nightmare and was horrified to find that he could understand the victimization of human experimentation. the hatred of the victim—because he, too, suffered from it.

The most unbearable thing for him was that when he finished reading those materials, he breathed a sigh of relief-this made him feel ashamed. Because not only can he not change the past that has happened, but he can't even bear to watch their suffering.

The researcher suffers from the fact that scientific rationality is distorted into a careless indifference to human life, the experimental subject suffers from the torment of not being able to see the light of day and the strange distortion of the body, and the detective suffers from the fact that he failed to find out the truth earlier. There are no winners here, it's like a war. The loser dies with hatred, and the survivors are not happy. All who survive are winners and all are losers.

All are guilty.

Kudo Shinichi sets his sights on the city. Almost as soon as it got dark, the whole city was lit up. He had an eerie feeling that he was at the bottom of the ocean, with lights floating slowly like jellyfish. The stream of lights is like a river of stars pouring down, flowing warmly through the crowded streets.

As the sun sets, the light created by man lights up the world. Even if you look down from the universe, you can still see the magnificent sea of ​​lights.

All men are guilty, perhaps. But that doesn't mean they can't be saved.

Miyano Shiho stayed in Tokyo after accepting the tainted witness plan. Her sister Miyano Akemi lived with her~www.wuxiahere.com~ During this year, their mental state was very stable, and the two lived in peace and stability with. It seems that he is no longer bothered by the shadow of the organization.

Even though they were in so much pain because of the organization—the darkness and torture brought to them by the organization made them sleepless every night, the unbearable memories bit their hearts like poisonous snakes, and they even had hallucinations when they woke up from nightmares. To the sarcastic sneer—but now that the organization no longer exists, things are moving in a good direction.

They paid the price, and then ushered in a better life.

Kudo Shinichi's eyes reflected the bustling city. The little lights flicker softly. His eyes are as bright as stars.

He couldn't promise to save Nan Ling, but he couldn't let him fall.

"077," Kudo Shinichi replied, without mentioning human experiments or organizations, "that's the reason why Nanling embarked on this road."

That's all.

(end of this chapter)